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Ex-Microsoft exec Bill Henningsgaard dies in plane crash | |
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A former director of technology firm Microsoft has died in a plane crash in the US, his family has confirmed. | |
Bill Henningsgaard, 54, was on board his own plane with his 17-year-old son Maxwell when the plane came down near Connecticut's Tweed New Haven airport. | |
Mr Henningsgaard, a Microsoft marketing executive for 14 years, had been travelling to the East Coast to help his son to choose a college. | |
The plane crashed into two homes, and two children are also feared dead. | |
The two homes in the town of East Haven caught fire. One witness said a woman was screaming that her children were trapped inside one of them. | |
A fire official has confirmed that four bodies were recovered from the site overnight. | |
The plane took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. | |
Mr Henningsgaard worked at Microsoft from 1988 to 2002 before leaving the company to concentrate on philanthropy. | |
Social Venture Partners, a charitable foundation he helped to set up, paid tribute to him as someone who was "truly all-in for this community, heart, mind and soul". | |
The plane, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B, crashed at about 11:25 local time (15:25 GMT) on Friday as it approached the airport in rainy weather, say officials. | |
Tweed's airport manager said the pilot had been speaking to air traffic control, but did not issue any distress calls. | Tweed's airport manager said the pilot had been speaking to air traffic control, but did not issue any distress calls. |
"All we know is that it missed the approach and continued on," said Lori Hoffman-Soares. "There were no distress calls as far as we know." | "All we know is that it missed the approach and continued on," said Lori Hoffman-Soares. "There were no distress calls as far as we know." |